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Evaluating HPC & Accelerated Compute this quarter? This page brings together what changed, which companies are most active, what practitioners are asking and how to build a shortlist.
GPUs, AI accelerators, inference hardware and high-performance computing: the chips, systems and capital behind AI at scale.
What changed recently
Start with the news. These are the HPC & Accelerated Compute stories getting the most attention right now, so you know what has shifted before you talk to anyone.
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Building multimodal models for spatial reasoning
What is spatial reasoning? AI is moving beyond the digital world. The next generation of AI systems needs to understand and interact with physical environments, from robots to autonomous systems navigating complex spaces.
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How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic
When COVID-19 emerged, scientists had a crucial advantage: Decades of prior research on coronaviruses meant they understood the virus’ key proteins well enough to design vaccines in record time. The next pandemic may not offer the same head start. To help improve the odds, NVIDIA has joined a coalition of global research organizations, including Google […]
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Contain the Chaos: ‘CONTROL Resonant’ Launches on GeForce NOW
A warped Manhattan is waiting in the cloud this week. Remedy Entertainment’s CONTROL Resonant brings Dylan Faden’s extraordinary abilities and a paranatural crisis to GeForce NOW at launch. With the release comes the final days of the CONTROL Resonant Ultimate Membership Bundle. Purchase a 12-month GeForce NOW Ultimate membership through Sunday, Sept. 27, and receive […]
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Sakeena Fiza Helps NVIDIA Hardware Succeed at Scale
When Sakeena Fiza describes her work as a validation engineer at NVIDIA, she does so in terms more befitting a detective story than a world-class engineering lab. “Validation engineers look in the shadows and shine a light into every corner,” Fiza said. “Every time we get a system, our first thought is: how can it […]
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At AI Day Singapore, NVIDIA and Partners Showcase AI Advancements Across Southeast Asia
NVIDIA AI Day Singapore, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is offering attendees opportunities to explore the hands-on training, expert-led sessions and advanced tools to accelerate their work in AI and high-performance computing. At the event, NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing breakthrough AI advancements across the Southeast Asia region […]
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NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 Advances Agentic, Open Source Robotics Development
To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and tools. The ROS open framework is a project from Open Robotics that helps humans build robots. NVIDIA Isaac ROS 5.0 — a collection of GPU-accelerated packages built on ROS, released today at […]
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From structures to dynamics: scaling AI for molecular dynamics in drug discovery
Why molecular dynamics matters for drug discovery Molecular dynamics (MD) is an important tool in modern drug discovery. While structure prediction and molecular docking can show how a potential drug might fit into a protein, they provide only a snapshot. Molecules are constantly moving. MD simulations allow researchers to see how a drug and its target behave over time: whether the interaction…
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Arm joins EuroCDP to accelerate Europe’s next generation of innovators
Expanding access to Arm technology, tools and ecosystem support for European startups, SMEs and research teams developing custom silicon. The post Arm joins EuroCDP to accelerate Europe’s next generation of innovators appeared first on Arm Newsroom .
Companies to know in HPC & Accelerated Compute
Those stories keep returning to the same names. These are the companies we track in this category; each profile has its news, solutions and published reviews.
NVIDIA
Santa Clara, California, USA
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive. Its data centre portfolio includes Hopper and Blackwell GPUs, Grace CPUs, DGX systems, InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, and the CUDA and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stacks. Founded in 1993, NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and listed on Nasdaq.
AMD
Santa Clara, California, USA
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) is a US semiconductor company founded in 1969 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It designs EPYC server CPUs, Ryzen client processors, Radeon graphics, Instinct data centre GPU accelerators with the ROCm software stack, and adaptive computing products from Xilinx, acquired in 2022, for data centre, HPC, AI, PC, gaming and embedded markets.
Intel
Santa Clara, California, USA
Intel is a US semiconductor company that designs and manufactures x86 processors, including Xeon data centre CPUs and Core client processors, along with Gaudi AI accelerators, networking and edge computing products. Through Intel Foundry it also manufactures chips for external customers. Founded in 1968 by Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Intel is listed on Nasdaq.
HPE
Spring (Houston), Texas, USA
HPE, the primary brand of Hewlett Packard Enterprise since June 2025, is a US enterprise technology company that sells servers, storage, networking and hybrid cloud services, including the HPE GreenLake cloud platform. Formed in 2015 when Hewlett-Packard split in two, HPE focuses on edge-to-cloud infrastructure and AI, and it expanded its networking business by acquiring Juniper Networks in July 2025.
Dell Technologies
Round Rock, Texas, USA
Dell Technologies is an American technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It sells PCs, servers, storage, networking and data protection products and services, including PowerEdge servers, PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerMax storage, PowerProtect data protection and the Dell AI Factory. Dell was founded by Michael Dell in 1984; Dell Technologies was formed in 2016 when Dell acquired EMC. It is listed on the NYSE (DELL).
Lenovo
Hong Kong, China
Lenovo is a multinational technology company that makes PCs, smartphones, servers, storage and IT services. Its Infrastructure Solutions Group sells ThinkSystem servers, ThinkAgile hyperconverged systems, ThinkSystem storage and Neptune liquid-cooled systems for HPC and AI. Founded in Beijing in 1984, Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and acquired IBM's PC business in 2005 and x86 server business in 2014.
Supermicro
San Jose, California, USA
Supermicro (Super Micro Computer, Inc.) is a US maker of servers, storage systems and data centre infrastructure, founded in 1993 by Charles Liang and headquartered in San Jose, California. It builds GPU-accelerated AI and HPC systems, rack-scale solutions and direct liquid cooling for cloud providers, enterprises and research institutions. Supermicro is listed on Nasdaq.
IBM
Armonk, New York, USA
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform, IBM Z mainframes and Power servers, IBM Storage, Db2 databases, and automation and observability software such as Instana and HashiCorp Terraform. Founded in 1911 and headquartered in Armonk, New York, IBM is listed on the NYSE.
Fujitsu
Fujitsu is a Japanese information and communications technology company providing IT services, consulting, servers, storage and advanced computing. It co-developed the Fugaku supercomputer with RIKEN, designed the Arm-based A64FX processor, and is developing the FUJITSU-MONAKA data centre CPU. Founded in 1935, Fujitsu serves enterprises and governments worldwide and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Bull
France
Bull is a French advanced computing company specialising in high-performance computing, AI infrastructure and quantum computing. It designs and manufactures BullSequana supercomputers and servers and develops the Qaptiva quantum software suite. Founded in 1931 and part of Atos from 2014, Bull has been owned by the French State since 31 March 2026, when the State completed its acquisition of Atos's Advanced Computing business.
Penguin Solutions
Penguin Solutions is a technology company that designs, builds, deploys and manages high-performance computing and AI infrastructure, and also sells specialty memory and LED products. Formerly SMART Global Holdings (SGH), the company adopted the Penguin Solutions name in 2024. Its portfolio includes Penguin Computing HPC and AI clusters, cluster management software, SMART Modular memory solutions and related services for enterprises, research institutions and government.
Cerebras
Sunnyvale, California, USA
Cerebras Systems is a US AI computing company founded in 2015 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It builds the Wafer-Scale Engine, a processor made from an entire silicon wafer, and CS-series systems built around it, and offers the Cerebras inference cloud and on-premises AI supercomputers. Cerebras has been listed on Nasdaq under the ticker CBRS since May 2026.
Groq
Mountain View, California, USA
Groq is a US AI chip and inference company that designed the Language Processing Unit (LPU), a deterministic processor built for fast, low-latency inference of large language models. It offers GroqCloud, an API platform serving open models, and GroqRack on-premises systems. Groq was founded in 2016 by Jonathan Ross, a co-creator of Google's TPU, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
SambaNova
Palo Alto, California, USA
SambaNova, formally SambaNova Systems, is an AI computing company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2017. It designs Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) processors, such as the SN40L, and sells full-stack AI inference systems and services, including SambaNova Cloud for fast inference of open-source large language models and on-premises SambaStack deployments. It is privately held and venture-backed.
CoreWeave
Livingston, New Jersey, USA
CoreWeave is an American AI cloud provider headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey. It operates data centres offering GPU-accelerated compute, storage and networking for training and running AI models, with managed Kubernetes and Slurm services. Founded in 2017 as Atlantic Crypto, it pivoted to cloud computing, listed on Nasdaq (CRWV) in March 2025 and acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases in 2025.
Lambda
Lambda is an AI infrastructure company that provides GPU cloud computing for training and running AI models, including on-demand instances, reserved clusters and private cloud capacity based on NVIDIA GPUs. It also offers the Lambda Stack software distribution and has sold GPU workstations and servers. Formerly known as Lambda Labs, the company was founded in 2012 by Stephen and Michael Balaban.
Arm
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Arm is a British semiconductor IP company founded in 1990 and headquartered in Cambridge, England. It designs the Arm instruction set architecture and licenses CPU cores (Cortex, Neoverse), GPUs and compute subsystems to chipmakers, underpinning most smartphones and a growing share of data centre, automotive and edge chips. SoftBank Group is Arm's majority owner; it listed on Nasdaq in 2023.
Qualcomm
San Diego, California, USA
Qualcomm is a US semiconductor and wireless technology company headquartered in San Diego, California, founded in 1985. It designs Snapdragon system-on-chips, 5G modems and RF systems for smartphones, PCs, vehicles and IoT devices, and licenses its extensive portfolio of cellular patents. Qualcomm also sells edge AI platforms and Cloud AI inference accelerators, and is listed on Nasdaq.
Tenstorrent
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tenstorrent is an AI and RISC-V computing company founded in 2016 in Toronto, Canada, and led by chief executive Jim Keller. It designs AI accelerators based on its Tensix cores, including the Wormhole and Blackhole processors, sells cards and workstation and server systems, and licenses RISC-V CPU and AI IP. Its software stacks, including TT-Metalium, are open source.
Graphcore
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Graphcore is a British semiconductor company that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architecture for machine learning, together with the Poplar software stack. Its products include the Bow IPU and IPU-POD systems for AI training and inference. Founded in 2016 by Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles and based in Bristol, Graphcore was acquired by SoftBank Group in 2024.
What practitioners are asking
Vendor news only tells you half of it. This is what people working in HPC & Accelerated Compute are discussing and asking each other.
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How are you getting GPU capacity for AI in 2026?
Reserved cloud capacity, neoclouds, on-prem clusters, shared internal pools? What are lead times and utilisation like?
Build a shortlist
With the news, the companies and the open questions in view, pick three to five companies whose products match your problem, read their recent stories and put your remaining questions to the community before you speak to sales.
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Lenovo and Schneider Electric Partner to Bring Decarbonization Tools and Expertise to IT Channel Partners
Partnership gives a practical pathway to measure emissions, build decarbonization roadmaps, and demonstrate sustainability progress.
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Lenovo Supports the 20th Asian Games and the 5th Asian Para Games as the Official Supplier of PC Equipment and Related Services and Solutions
Through this sponsorship, Lenovo will contribute to building a robust digital environment that supports event organizers, media representatives, and fans, while helping advance digital transformation in the sports industry.
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Lenovo and Olympic Council of Asia Partner to Help Shape the Future of Technology-Enabled Sport
Lenovo named Official Solutions and Services Partner of the OCA through 2030, establishing a collaborative framework for the next generation of AI-powered sporting experiences
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Lenovo’s AI-enabled iChain helps improve delivery accuracy by 30%
Deployed across Lenovo’s own global supply chain, AI-enabled iChain helped teams make and execute fulfillment decisions 3x faster, assess risks with 85% accuracy, and respond to disruption 4x faster.
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Closing the loop: agentic evaluation for image editing foundation models
Why evaluating image editing models is both critical and challenging Instruction-based image editing is becoming a core capability of multimodal foundation models. Users can increasingly edit images simply by describing what they want: “remove the person in the background,” “make the car red,” or “move the chair next to the table.”
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Arm publishes FYE26 Sustainable Business Report
The report highlights how Arm is advancing power-efficient computing, investing in its people, and working with partners to expand access to innovation and opportunity in the AI era. The post Arm publishes FYE26 Sustainable Business Report appeared first on Arm Newsroom .
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MLPerf Inference v6.1: pioneering agent, VLM benchmarks
First agentic workload on datacenter hardware in MLPerf, and the first model over a trillion parameters. Plus 8.85% more throughput on identical hardware since v6.0.
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Lenovo Modernizes Virtualization Infrastructure for an AI-Ready Future
New ThinkAgile Infrastructure, Expanded Lenovo Express Solutions and Deployment Services Give Customers Greater Choice, Resilience and Control
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Lambda signs the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge, reinforcing commitment to community benefits and grid reliability
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 14 , 2026 — Lambda, Inc. (“Lambda”), the Superintelligence Cloud, today announced it has signed the White House Ratepayer Protection Pledge , affirming its commitment to ensuring that the infrastructure supporting America's artificial intelligence (AI) future delivers meaningful benefits for local communities, while protecting consumers and ratepayers.
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Five developer takeaways from Arm Create for building and deploying AI
Across two Arm Create events in Shanghai and Shenzhen, developers explored the infrastructure, model, deployment, optimization, and validation decisions that turn AI from a promising model into software that works in the real world. The post Five developer takeaways from Arm Create for building and deploying AI appeared first on Arm Newsroom .
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Inside Arm CSS for Mobile 2: The AI-native compute platform for mobile
One platform built around Arm’s best-in-class Arm C2-Ultra CPU, AI-native Mali G2-Ultra NX with dedicated neural accelerators, and system-level optimization for the next generation of mobile experiences. The post Inside Arm CSS for Mobile 2: The AI-native compute platform for mobile appeared first on Arm Newsroom .
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Inside the Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: Delivering desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics
Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX brings dedicated neural accelerators, a new execution engine and a third-generation ray tracing unit to help developers create desktop-class gaming experiences on mobile devices. The post Inside the Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: Delivering desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics appeared first on Arm Newsroom .
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AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Expand Saudi Arabia’s AI Infrastructure as AMD Instinct Systems Go Live
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AMD Appoints Tim Ryan to Board of Directors
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AMD Acquires Taalas to Advance Compute Solutions for Rapidly Growing AI Inference Market
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